[Bigtigermike]

Does the Cartwrights know about this?

[JRandomFreeper]

Because the loggers are confused about how to cook it?

I can help with that....

johnny

[bill1952]

The logging is in an area where a fire burned more than 250 homes in 2007.

And they object to clearing the ash when it was undoubtedly uncleared forest area that caused this mess in the first place?

For a woodpecker nest??

Give me a break!

[elkfersupper]

It is the woodpecker’s job to adapt to us. It is not our job to adapt to the woodpecker.

[Puckster]

“Rare”...Yeah, right:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-backed_Woodpecker/id

It’s range is extensive.

Okay, rare at the fringe of it’s ranges, but not rare.

The continual misinformation from environmental groups get old....real old.

[MillardFillmore]

Thanks Normsrevenge. This is another anti-development scam by the California enviros. This bird is not rare globally nor is the bird is endangered in north america (even though it probably is rare locally in california). Per the IUCN, this is a species of “Least Concern”—lowest priority for conservation. see link.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/100600658/0

Here’s a link to where the black-backed woodpecker can be seen in N. America. Every one of those red dots indicates a sighting in the last 30 days. More than 60 sightings of this species just in the last 30 days all along the US-Canada line.

http://ebird.org/ebird/tx/map/bkbwoo?neg=true&env.minX=137.8414185890099&env.minY=16.399768221099563&env.maxX=14.44298108900989&env.maxY=70.99390947677&zh=true&gp=false&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=2012-2012&byr=2012&eyr=2012

Thus, start up the chainsaws, if you ask me, since the value of the lumber exceeds the value of the tourism dollars which it probably does. Most people aren’t interested in visiting burnt forests to see a bird than can be seen many other places.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The peckerwoods are using woodpeckers now to stop logging?

[calex59]

The Spotted Owl no longer works so now it is wood peckers. As far as I know there are no endangered wood pecker species in CA, or Nevada for that matter.

[Bratch]

[VeniVidiVici]

I want to know how the woodpecker lived through the fire.

[Lizavetta]

Nesting season in August??

I thought North American birds nested in the spring.

[bray]

More agenda driven junk science.

Pray for America

[Sivad]

That Chad Hanson twit is a local tree hugger whiner who knows
as much about woodpeckers as Barumba knows about econom~
mics. Never met a logging sale he didn’t cry about. Hey Hanson....
Get outta my town & take Michael Moores butt ugly sister
w/you.

[az.b1bbomberfxr]

Didn’t Tipper Gore try to save a rare “WOOD PECKER?”